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THE WAR 

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NEW AMERICA 



BY JOHN BARRETT 




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THE NEW PAN AMERICA 



[Address before the Southern Commercial Congress, Hotel Astor, New York Cit}-, Monday evening, 
October 15, by John Barrett, Director General of The Pan American Union, the International Bureau 
of the American Republics, and former United States Minister to Argentina, Colombia and Panama.] 

The end of the war will be the beginning of a new era for Pan America 
and Pan Americanism. After the war will come a new America which 
will mean a new "all America," or Pan America, and a new Pan Ameri- 
canism. In the crucible of this mighty struggle are being burned out 
the old animosity, the old distrust between North and South America. 
The purified residue will be a new mutual confidence, a new good-will 
and a new cooperation for the common good. Pan American comity 
and commerce, Pan American travel and trade, Pan American inter- 
course and intimacy will then have a new inspiration and a new force. 

When the war is concluded, we will realize that it has done more than 
any other international influence since the declaration of the Monroe 
Doctrine in 1823 to develop ideal and permanent Pan American solidar- 
ity; that it has accomplished more than all the diplomatic notes of a 
century to make the Monroe Doctrine an unquestioned principle in the 
relationship of nations. After the war the Monroe Doctrine must and 
will become a great Pan American doctrine. Then it will belong to, and 
be espoused by, every other American government from Canada, Cuba 
and Mexico south to Argentina, Uruguay and Chile, as much as by the 
United States. Then, being Pan American and supported by every 
American government, it will be forever accepted and respected by the 
rest of the world, and, in its essence, become a world doctrine standing 
for the integrity, independence and self-government of every nation, 
great and small. 

Victory for the United States and the allies will remove for all time the 
only international menace to the Monroe Doctrine. The new Pan 
America and new Pan Americanism which will follow the war will also 
be so powerful in their own inherent strength and backing that never 
again can a new menace from the old world assert itself 

No other nation of America can honestly and logically even intimate 
that the United States has entered this world struggle for any selfish 
purpose of territorial aggrandizement or for the slightest advantage over 
its sister American republics. No matter what doubts and discussions 

there may be concerning acts and wars of the past, there can be only one 
opinion throughout Pan America concerning the attitude oi the United 
States in its present course. Every man, woman and child from northern 
Canada to southern Chile knows absolutely in his heart that the United 
States is fighting foi causes and principles just as dear to every South and 



Central American government, people and person as they are to the 
government, people and persons of the United States. 

Every thoughtful statesman and commoner in every American nation 
must admit that victory for the enemies of the United States would mean 
the conquest and subjugation, directly or indirectly, not only of the United 
States but of the other countries of this hemisphere. It s, therefore, 
sublimely gratifying that the sober public sentiment of practically all the 
twenty Latin American republics — eighty millions of people — is over- 
whelmingly pro-United States and pro-ally in this struggle of democracy 
against autocracy. It would seem, in consequence, to be only a question 
of time when all the Latin American countries must follow the dictates 
and demands of this public sentiment and align themselves with the 
United States and the allies. Otherwise, they may find themselves 
delaying and possibly preventing the triumph and supremacy of the basic 
principles which inspired them to fight for their independence and upon 
which they wrote their constitutions and constructed their nationalities. 

There should be no hasty criticism of Argentina, of Chile, of Venezuela, 
of Colombia, of Ecuador, or of any other Latin American government 
which may have not yet taken a decisive position in the present conflict. 
We must trust that each government is acting honestly and refuse to 
admit that influence and propaganda are holding these governments 
back in their final decision, just as we must decline to admit that such 
influence and propaganda kept the government of the United States for 
nearly three years, in the face of unspeakable irritation, from taking the 
final step. 

On the other hand, let not any part of Pan America blind itself and 
refuse to read the handwriting on the wall, which tells us that there 
is surely, even if slowly, rising, an overpowering flood tide of public sym- 
pathy with the purposes, ideals and inspirations of the United States 
in this terrific fight of immortal right against mortal evil in the relations 
of nations. This flood, if the war continues another year, must inevita- 
bly sweep over all Latin America from the Rio Grande to the Straits 
of Magellan, making even benevolent neutrality impossible. 

Then, when the sun shall shine on that happy day, all America — Pan 
America — shall, so to speak, form a choir of nations and peoples and 
chant in perfect unison a new hymn of Pan Americanism, a new anthem 
of Pan American cooperation and good-will, confidence and commerce, 
progress and peace, which will be taken up by all the nations and peoples 
of the world and will herald the coming of the day when there shall begin 
everlasting peace and good- will among all men and all peoples throughout 
all time! 

Pan American Union, 
Washington, D. C, 
October n, ipiy. 



LIBRPRY OF CONGRESS 




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THE PAN AMERICAN UNION is the inter- 
national organization and office maintained 
in Washington, D. C, by the twenty-one 
American republics, as follows: Argentina, Bolivia, 
Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Domini- 
can Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, 
Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Salva- 
dor, United States, Uruguay, and Venezuela. It is 
devoted to the development and advancement of 
commerce, friendly intercourse, and good under- 
standing among these countries. It is supported by 
quotas contributed by each country, based upon the 
population. Its affairs are administered by a Direc- 
tor General and Assistant Director, elected by and 
responsible to a Governing Board, which is com- 
posed of the Secretary of State of the United States 
and the diplomatic representatives in Washington 
of the other American governments. These two 
executive officers are assisted by a staff of inter- 
national experts, statisticians, commercial special- 
ists, editors, translators, compilers, librarians, clerks 
and stenographers. The Union publishes a Monthly 
Bulletin in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French, 
which is a careful record of Pan American progress. 
It also publishes numerous special reports and pam- 
phlets on various subjects of practical information. 
Its library, the Columbus Memorial Library, con- 
tains 36,000 volumes, 20,000 photographs, 150,000 
index cards, and a large collection of maps. The 
Union is housed in a beautiful building erected 
through the munificence of Andrew Carnegie. 



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